Mainspring Energy

Embedded Software Intern

LocationMenlo Park, CA
Job TypeInternship
Salary$56,160-$72,800

About This Job


Company Overview

Mainspring Energy is revolutionizing power generation with the world’s most flexible and adaptable onsite power generator, the Mainspring Linear Generator. Commercial, industrial, and utility leaders are choosing Mainspring over traditional options like engines, turbines, and fuel cells to quickly and reliably deliver local power for EV charging, commercial facilities, data centers, and grid-scale operations. The Mainspring Linear Generator is fuel flexible, ramps up and down to meet demand, and utilizes a flameless technology with near-zero NOx emissions.

Backed by top-tier investors such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, and Lightrock, Mainspring designs, manufactures and delivers its products to customers across the U.S. today, and we’re quickly scaling for international expansion.


Inspired by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid, Mainspring is rapidly expanding within the $816B global electricity equipment market, and we’re hiring the best talent to meet growing customer demand around the globe. We welcome a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and talents to bring fresh perspectives and ongoing innovation to our customers.

We are looking to build relationships with people who share our values: Pragmatic Optimism. Building a new category of world-class power generation requires the optimism of ambition and creativity, balanced with practicality to solve problems efficiently. The challenges that arise are opportunities for growth. Excellence without Ego. We bring expertise and commitment to creating the best customer experience, from sales to deployment and service, just as we apply deep technical rigor to building and delivering world-class products. We strive for excellence and behave as leaders with the humility to acknowledge our challenges, both collectively and as individual contributors. Proactive Collaboration. The integration and cross-disciplinary nature of Mainspring’s business requires intentionally seeking out others who bring different skills, perspectives, and priorities. Our culture of inclusion and respect extends beyond our team to interactions with our partners and customers.

More information can be found at www.mainspringenergy.com Job Overview

Mainspring Energy’s revolutionary linear generator is a sophisticated system that produces clean, low-carbon electricity using a distributed network of embedded systems. The distributed embedded system requires a robust communication platform that is rapidly evolving and expanding. This role will architect and develop foundational software components for the communications platform.

Responsibilities

Primarily work with the embedded software team while collaborating with the DevOps, software QA, control electronics, and controls engineering teams

Understand the existing software and systems as well as the requirements for the projects you are working on
Participate in one of the scrum teams to complete this work, helping with writing tickets and completing the work on those tickets following the established development processes
The proposed projects are expected to provide near-term business value to Mainspring with the prospect of a solution that continues to be used and built on in the future
Possible projects depending on experience and interest are listed below
Code generation tools to automate repetitive coding tasks related to the translation of data between different protocols and in various programming languages
Test benches and test automation for embedded systems that cover hardware and network interfaces and automation of test execution
Document management system to publish controlled technical documents using existing or bespoke software relying on front-end and back-end web development skills


Qualifications

Pursuing a Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or software engineering
Experience with Python, C++, Linux, network communications, network APIs, software testing
Experience with software development processes and tools such as git, CMake, JIRA, gcc
Experience with electronics and tools such as an oscilloscope, multimeter, logic analyzer, or protocol analyzer is a plus


This position is onsite at our Menlo Park HQ. The hourly wage will be adjusted to reflect local market conditions based on employee location as well as the experience of the employee.

Does your experience not meet all of our posted requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to positions unless they meet every listed requirement. At Mainspring, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, flexible, and collaborative environment, so if you want to help us transition the world to clean and affordable electricity, and don’t meet all posted requirements for a particular role, we’d still love to hear from you. Mainspring can sometimes be flexible enough to shift responsibilities for the right person, or otherwise identify open or upcoming roles that may better fit your professional background.

In more traditional words, Mainspring Energy, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

This compensation and benefits information is based on Mainspring Energy's estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. We generally do not negotiate on salary once we have made an offer. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise. New hires joining the company tend to be paid within the starting base pay range noted above, with opportunities to increase pay over time based on development of additional skills, competencies, and company-specific knowledge.

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